Odd Sound Out

In each of the following groups of four sounds, find one
member of the group that does not share a feature of sound shared
by the other three. Encircle the "odd sound out" and
name the feature it does NOT share. For some groups there is
more than one possible answer; give as many answers as you can
find that are valid. Use either traditional articulatory
features such as "labial" or "alveolar" or
those used in modern feature systems such as "coronal,"
"anterior," "strident," etc.

[Note: so that this web site can be accessed by a variety of
browsers, we make the following substitutions for phonetic
symbols: I for "small capital i," E for
"schwa," eh for "open e," U for "small
capital u," uh for "caret," O for "open
o," ah for "manuscript a," th for
"theta," N for "engma," ch for "wedge
c," zh for "wedge z," and J for "wedge
j." The following are in the ANSI character set and may not
need to be substituted for with some browsers: æ, ð, ,
ñ, ü, ö. We will, however, use the following alternates here
(respectively): ae, TH, S, n~, u", o".]

Example: [ f TH d
zh ]

In this example group, d
could be encircled with the notation that it is "not a
fricative" and f could be encircled with the
notation that it is "not voiced."

The exercise. Now, find the odd sounds out in each of
the following ten groups of four.

[
b z d g ]

[ g N k t ]

[ i ae U eh]

[ f v d m ]

[ e i I u ]

[
z d ch s ]

[ d t n g ]

[ p b d g ]

[ th z f sh ]

[ ah a ae uh ]

In addition, design two groups of your own
and provide answers to them.